I promise this is the most fun newsletter you'll open all week 🙃(Startup Watching #241)

IPInfo is a profitable, bootstrapped startup with a 100% remote team. They serve over 20 billion (that’s not a typo) API requests per month for customers like Dell, CBS, npm, and Xerox!

They’re looking for a tech-savvy content manager to leverage their fascinating data to create blog posts, social media content and customer case studies. This is an awesome part-time opportunity, with the option to go full-time later. If you think you might be a fit, apply here!

The folks at Glimpse have compiled a massive list of search trends caused by the pandemic. It’s fascinating to look through the data, and there may be some good business opportunities in here. My favorites? “Chicken coop” and “Unclog toilet.” 😂🚽

This looks like a killer resource for any wannabe designers working on a new product. Figma has become the hot new tool for interface design, and their team put together this list of design best practices and Figma tips and tricks.

This is one of my favorite episodes of the Indie Hackers podcast I’ve listened to recently, and it just so happens to feature my good friend. Baird Hall turned a failed social network into two profitable SaaS businesses in the last 4 years. This interview is packed with good advice on how to do cold email right and why hiring other founders is good startup strategy.

Another bit of sales advice for you, this time from the folks at Segment. My favorite piece of this article is the very first lesson: it’s consulting, not sales. As soon as I shifted my mindset from selling to teaching, sales become a lot more fun for me and I got better at it.

Shodan is a tool that scans the entire internet to find interesting anomalies for cyber security pros. As part of their data they collect favicons, and their team put together this fascinating graphics of the top 5000 favicons arranged in size by how often they’re used. Super interesting visual!

One of the coolest things I’ve seen on the internet this week! Someone created a choose-your-own-adventure escape room game… using only Google docs! This is a super creative way to prototype a game and looks super fun to play.

Few want to talk about how 14 sailors met their deaths on a Russian engineering marvel. Fewer still want to talk about what they were doing off Norway’s waters. This was a fascinating read from the Times about an accident aboard a top-secret nuclear submarine and what it might mean for Russia’s military strategy.